Spoon having adjustable and removable handle.



No. 677,l06K Patented June 25, l90l.

' A. ST. CLAIR, Decd.

E, 0. ST. CLAIR, Administratrix. SPOUN HAVING ADJUSTABLE AND REMOVABLE HANDLE.

Application filed Mar. 24, 1900.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER ST. CLAIR, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HERMAN C. BACHRODT, OF SAME PLACE; EMMA D. ST. CLAIR ADMIN- ISTRATRIX OF SAID ALEXANDER ST. CLAIR, DECEASED.

SPOON HAVING ADJUSTABLE AND REMOVABLE HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,106, dated June 25, 1901. Application filed March 24, 1900. Serial No. 9,9 96. (No model.)

T all whom i may c nc rn: integral shank at its rear end, to which is Be it known that I, ALEXANDER ST. CLAIR, fixed a handle C to extend at right angles a citizen of the United States, residing at from the shank and bowl. The shankB has Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State a transverse screw-threaded bore, and the 35 of Iowa, have invented a new and useful handle C a screw on its end adapted to enter Spoon Having an Adjustable and Removable said bore as required to detachably and ad- Handle, of which the following is a specifijustably connect the handle with the bowl. cation. To adapt it for use in the left hand, the han- My object is to prevent the annoyances indle can be removed and fixed in the bore of 4d cident to the use of spoons for conveying soup the shank to extend in a reverse direction, as

and other kinds of food into a persons mouth. shown by Fig. 2. Etiquette requires the side of the spoon to It is obvious the size and shape of my spoons be introduced between the lips, and in so (10- may vary to accomplish the purpose of my ing food is liable to adhere to the lips and invention in providing bowls that extend at 15 mustache of gentlemen, so as to have a reright angles to the handles.

pulsive appearance to observers and a dis- Havingdescribedthepurposeandconstruccomfort to the person who is eating. tion of my invention, its practical utility will A further object is to adapt a spoon to be be readily understood by persons familiar changed as required to be used advantawith the art to which it pertains, and what I 2o geously in the left hand as well as the right. claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters My invention consists in the bowl and ad- Patent, is j ustable removable handle hereinafter set A transformable spoon consisting of a bowl forth, pointed out in my claim, and illushaving an integral shank andascrew-threadtrated in the accompanying drawings, in ed bore extended through said shank and a 2 5 whichhandle having a screw-threaded end fitted in Figure 1 shows the bowl of a spoon and a said bore to extend at right angles to the handle detachably connected therewith as shank and bowl.

adapted for use in the right hand, and Fig. ALEXANDER ST. CLAIR. 2 as used in the left hand. Fig. 3 is a sec- Witnesses: 5o tional view of the bowl. F. C. STUART,

The letter A designates the bowl, and B an THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

